The Suez Canal is a 193km long waterway in Egypt which connects the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, allowing ship traffic to pass between Asia and Europe without having to travel all the way around Africa. The narrow width of the canal means that ships can only travel in one direction at a time, with convoys of many vessels travelling together north or south, with pauses along the way to allow traffic to pass in the other direction. Google’s images have mostly captured boats travelling north, so that’s the direction we’ll travel on our tour. Ships at…